2006 Highlights

A summary of the accomplishments of WT playwrights for late 2005 and 2006 includes: 26 productions, 20 awards/recognitions, 16 readings, 6 workshops, 4 commissions, 3 publications, and 2 grants.

Valetta Anderson - Her play Leaving Limbo was produced as a part of Essential Theatre 2006 Power Plays Festival in Atlanta. Her play, Blue Water Fishing, received a staged reading through WTP. Her published plays are Moral of the Story and She’ll Find Her Way Home.

James Beck - He had a staged reading of The Secret of the Cat through WTP at Push Push Theatre, Decatur, GA. Also, he was the co-author of The War Virgin that was produced by Jack in the Black Box Theatre Co., Atlanta.

Patrick Cuccaro - He had premiere productions of two of his plays at Theater Decatur, Atlanta: An Imperfect Order and The Third Howl.

Evan Guilford-Blake - Evan's The Invasion was the winner of the Georgia Theatre Conference's One Act competition. Telling William Tell won the Jackie White and NETC/Aurand Harris children's playwriting competitions, his musical A Simple Love Song was the winner of the Henrico Theatre One-Act Contest; and his story Absence won the Porter Fleming short fiction competition. His young audiences' play The Firebird was published by Playscripts, Inc., and his children's picture book Butterflies by Unibooks, Inc.

Karla Jennings - Karla received a 2006 Ensemble Studio Theatre Sloan New Play Project (NP2) commission for a play on global warming to be workshopped at The Alliance Theatre, Atlanta. San Francisco's Magic Theatre has granted her a 2006 Sloan commission for her play The Ruby Vector and had a public reading at The Magic in September. She has also received the biannual Hermann Kesten Fellowship for a July 2006 international writers conference in Germany for her play Clay's War. She also is a past winner of the Playwrights First Award presented by the National Arts Club, NYC.

Hank Kimmel - His play Local Neighborhood Pharmacy was the winner of the Theatre Southwest, 2006 One-Act Play Festival, Houston, Texas. Also, Winners Never Quit was a finalist at Theatre Oxford, 10-minute Play festival, Oxford, Mississippi. In addition, his play The Name Game received a reading at the Decatur Arts Festival, Decatur, Georgia. His play Summary Judgment was a finalist at Theatre Brut 7 Deadly Sins Festival, New Jersey. His play The Education of Benjamin First received a staged reading through Working Title Playwright's Summer Reading Series, Decatur, Georgia.

Vynnie Meli - She had a reading of her full length play Passing Through at the Jewish Theatre of the South. Also, her play Chopped Liver in Paradise premiered at Jewish Theatre of the South.

Mary Miller - Her new play Waiting for Oprah was featured as part of Working Title Playwright's Summer Series at Push Push Theater, Atlanta. The play also was produced by the FutureFest in Dayton, Ohio and was the critics #1 choice and was selected as the Audience Favorite.

Gene Gabriel Moore - He returned to the stage performing in 7 Stages, Atlanta, production of Struck Dumb.

Jill Patrick - She was the recipient of Poets & Writers grant for WTP series, Playwrights &... for the premiere of Eating The Singletaries: Tales From A Tall Redhead at The Seen Gallery. Also, the play received a concert reading at the Baxter Blackbox Theater, Houston, Texas. Jill’s poem Dancing With Linda was published in Red Hills Review.

Sherry Paulson - Her play Our Lady of Perrysburg had its fifth production, its first in Florida, to audiences at the Pensacola Little Theatre, Studio 400 Series. The previous productions were in Birmingham, AL; Atlanta, GA, Blowing Rock, NC; and Dayton, OH. The play won Best Play of 2006 in the Studio 400 series. She also had a staged reading through Working Title of her play Time Flies.

Robin Seidman - Her play Women of Roswell won Best New Play at the Georgia Theatre Conference. Also, her play Paint! received production at Theatre Decatur.

Letitia Sweitzer - Her short play Cancel the Arugula was part of a reading at a benefit for Academy Theatre, Atlanta. Also the piece was read as a part of Robert Drake's The Ira Glass Menagerie a celebration of radio variety shows of yore, presented at Theatre Decatur, Atlanta.

Pamela Turner - She received a play commission from Fly-By Theatre (Frijoles on the Side). Her play Burning Man was a finalist for the Stage 3 Theatre Company’s Tenth Annual Festival of New Plays 2006 (Sonora, California), a semi-finalist for the 2006 PlayLabs at The Playwrights Center (Minneapolis), and a semi-finalist for the She Writes competition at Synchronicity Theatre. Her play Cosmeticos was selected for the 2006 XPT Xperimental Adult Puppetry Series, a part of the 2005/2006 Adult New Directions Season at the Center for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta. She was recently named the Editor of ShowGuide magazine.

Bill Wellborn - His play The Code received performances at the Walter Reade Jr. Playhouse in Cornwell on the Hudson, NY. Also, the play was performed at the First Stage Theatre in Los Angeles. Bill also won first prize for his play, Portrait of a Klansman, at the Great Lakes Film festival.

Marian X - She had a reading of Imagination As Religion at the Seen Gallery sponsored by WTP and Poets & Writers called Playwrights and... She had a rehearsed reading of When There Are No More Gods at Theater Decatur sponsored by WTP. She also had poetry readings at the Apache, Living It Live, and the Callanwolde Cafe.


 
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